Tuesday, December 29, 2009

ELEVATOR EXHIBIT

I've had a great vacation so far in NYC. One of the many museums I like to visit while in town is the New Museum. This time I went to see the Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty exhibit and it was surprisingly fun, especially because of this mishap with the elevators that was a bit surreal.

In a mostly empty room, we came to realize that the "art" on the wall was the wall itself. It was a large blown up photograph of the wall from the last de-installation, remounted to the wall as a photo. As I realized this I also noticed that the elevator was stuck between floors and that people were being lifted out by maintenance staff one at a time. It took me several minutes to realize that this was not part of the exhibition but an actual problem.

3 comments:

the new museum is such a sick place to visit. had the honor of going to see the younger than jesus show over the summer. I was dying to see the Urs Fischer show but wasn't able to make it out (live in Nashville), but thankfully my parents were in NYC during the exhibit's run so I made them go. Needless to say, they hated it, which is what I pretty much expected. Apparently my mom screamed bloody murder at the tongue that pops out of the wall. But I did receive Urs Fischer's book Shovel in a Hole for Christmas...definitely made up for not being able to see it.